New York legislators proposed requiring AI companies to warn if their chatbots might cause harm, but facing heavy lobbying, they backtracked.
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March 11, 2026 Minneapolis City Council 350 South 5th Street Room 370 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Council President Payne, Council Vice President Osman and Council Members: This letter is to inform you that I have vetoed Ordinance No. 2026-002 to extend the pre-eviction notice for renters to 60 days. I understand the authors’ intent, but the experience from COVID-19 and guidance from shelter and affordable housing providers shows that this strategy has not worked. We have heard over and over again from shelter and affordable housing providers that longer timelines produce worse outcomes for residents. In their words, when rental assistance isn’t available, time is a debt trap that becomes a barrier to securing future housing. I heard a call for more financial assistance, and I believe that is the best path forward. Rental assistance is working and getting to renters quickly – rent collections are better in 2026 than 2025. That’s why I’m proposing to spend $1 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund for emergency rental assistance administered through Hennepin County. While a 60-day pre-eviction notice period sounds good, there is no data to show that it does good. Pandemic era eviction moratorium allowed many renters to accumulate huge amounts of debt that they are still paying off today. When property owners carry the losses, the housing system experiences upward pressure on rents to replenish reserves, catch up on missed mortgage, insurance, utility, payroll, and property tax payments, and cover increased costs associated with deferred maintenance. I believe most landlords are working with tenants to develop payment plans and access rental assistance. But for bad actors, I worry that the proposal gives them reasons to report tenants to ICE or use minor lease violationswhich don’t require as much notice and are harder to expunge – to evict tenants. We will continue to monitor the data. If something substantially changes, I am committed to working with the City…
mayor jacob frey has vetoed the pause evictions, save lives bill the minneapolis city coucil approved that would've extended the eviction timeline from 30 days to 60 days temporarily to held families impacted by the ICE invasion catch up paying rent
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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the truly wild thing is there's no way to know if you're in their little fucked machine. It's a dynamic system that suggests "experts" contextually. there's no list, there's no nothing. so if you don't know you're in it how do you know to opt out?
🚨 Donald Trump is offering a new justification for the war today, claiming the U.S. had to strike Iran because “if we waited any longer – if we didn’t hit within two weeks – they would have had a nuclear weapon.” ▪️U.S. intelligence assessments in recent years have consistently said Iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon, though it has expanded enrichment capacity. ▪️ The U.S. intelligence community’s annual threat assessments have repeatedly stated that Iran’s leadership has not made the decision to build a nuclear bomb. ▪️ The IAEA has confirmed Iran enriched uranium to high levels (up to about 60% purity), which is not yet weapons-grade, and does not mean a bomb is imminent. Turning that material into a deliverable nuclear weapon would take additional steps and time. ▪️ Weapons experts agree the timeline from enriched uranium to an actual deployable nuclear weapon is far longer than two weeks — about 6-9 months.
See new posts Conversation Acyn @Acyn Leavitt: The president had a feeling, again, based on fact, that Iran was going to strike the US.
🚨 Trump offered a new justification for the war yesterday, claiming the U.S. had to strike Iran b/c “if we waited any longer – if we didn’t hit within two weeks – they would have had a nuclear weapon.”
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Palestine Today reported the following incidents: ▪️ In Rafah, a woman was killed and others were wounded after Israeli forces opened fire in the Al-Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip. ▪️ In central Gaza, several civilians were wounded when an Israeli drone opened fire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp. ▪️ Omar Ziad Al-Gharabli, 13, died from wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli strike on Gaza City. ▪️ Maher Harb Ahmed Samour, 43, was shot and killed east of Khan Younis. Local witnesses say Israeli special forces also seized farmer Montaser Samour during the same incident near Al-Qarara, later returning his body riddled with bullets after what his family described as a field execution. ▪️ Israeli artillery shelled eastern neighborhoods of Tuffah and Shujaiya in Gaza City, while warplanes carried out another strike east of Al-Bureij camp. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 633 people have been killed and 1,703 wounded since the ceasefire began. Rescue teams have also recovered 753 bodies during that period. Read this dispatch on Samour’s killing below ⬇️
Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal 🚨Abducted, tortured and killed. An Israeli occupation special forces unit seized farmer Montaser Samour, shot him, and later returned his body riddled with bullets near Al-Qarara in northern Khan Younis. Maher Samour was also shot and killed in the same incident outside the so-called buffer zone, in what witnesses describe as a field execution. Residents say the two men were targeted by Israeli occupation forces while in the area, and that one of them was shot again after being detained. Earlier accounts described how one was killed on the spot while the other was wounded, taken away alive, and later found with multiple gunshot wounds, his body bearing signs locals say point to torture. Dozens of mourners filled the streets of Khan Younis to carry the bodies of Maher and Montaser Samour, as anger and grief spread through the city. Families and neighbours say the two men posed no threat and were simply present near their land. tamerhqeshta (IG)
🚨 Israeli strikes continue across Gaza - 4 killed Wed., including child & woman
Israeli airstrikes, artillery fire, & gunfire were reported across the Gaza Strip on Wed., in Israel’s ongoing violation of the ceasefire agreed on Oct. 10.
Palestine Today reported the following incidents:
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FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar.
Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.
It's not what Casey was wanting but there is a browser extension to detect AI usage in Steam games. You'll get a pop up informing you of it, especially if they didn't disclose it.
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The agents who murdered Good and Pretti have had lengthy careers.
ICE (and CBP) are rotten to the core. The agents who murdered people less than a mile from my house have trained others and harmed others.
Abolish ICE. Break up DHS. The agency isn’t even old enough to rent a car. End it.
A must-read report from @pressfreedom.bsky.social: "We returned from hell": Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons
"58 Palestinian journalists reported being subjected to what they described as torture, abuse, or other forms of violence in Israeli detention facilities."
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses technical wireframe in patent-drawing blue, exploded view showing every camera, microphone, and sensor packed into what looks like normal eyewear. Someone has helpfully corrected the branding on the temple arm and logo to read "MEGA CREEP" instead of "Meta," which is the most accurate product rename since Facebook became Meta to dodge its own reputation. The engineering is impressive. The ethics are not.
Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
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You're living my dream, and I couldn't be happier for you.
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Don't use tools that support fascism, the stealing of your work and the work of others, and the mass wage suppression that AI is built to do. Not to mention the environmental effects, the poisoning of poor communities, and the 30% increase in energy prices.
With @reedsy.bsky.social pushing AI "tools" in their marketing newsletter, it's a good bet that they won't be ethical in their treatment and use of your work uploaded to their services. Encouraging the use of AI of any kind is a harm to their customers and the writing community, so why not divest?
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
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The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
i can't believe the latin name for the great horned owl is bubo virginianus. that feels like a fake latin insult someone would come up with to tease someone in middle school. "boob-o virgin-anus"
Being well-liked and charismatic and having policy positions the majority of the electorate agree with might work in New York City but that doesn't mean it will work in places where every day is opposite day
bro are you fucking kidding me
I love that idea! A fiction jam is something I'd definitely be into.
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
Energy.
Photo from @alexabwilkinson.bsky.social of Zionist agitator Mitya Ahanchonok shining a laser in the eyes & camera of press. He did this to multiple photogs.
Mitya works at @nbcuniversal.com. Wonder what his colleagues think of him trying to injure news photographers and damage their equipment?
Elected Democratic officials are handing the keys to the kingdom to the fascist without even an attempt to fight back. The democrat mayor and f dc is openly collaborating with the fascists in the federal government now to target minorities of all kinds for fascist violence.
